1 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
3 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
4 need as much processor time.
5 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
6 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
7 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
8 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
9 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
10 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
11 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
12 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
13 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
14 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
15 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
16 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
18 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
19 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
20 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
21 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
22 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
23 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
24 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
27 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
28 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
29 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
31 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
32 style address, then we'd crash.
33 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
34 a dirserver is broken.
35 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
37 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
38 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
39 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
41 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
42 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
43 name out of the warning/assert messages.
44 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
45 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
46 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
48 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
49 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
50 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
52 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
54 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
55 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
56 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
57 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
58 values at once couldn't work.
59 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
60 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
61 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
62 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
63 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
64 they can handle any number of routers.
65 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
66 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
67 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
68 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
69 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
70 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
71 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
72 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
73 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
76 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
78 - Make hibernation actually work.
79 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
80 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
81 don't use the stream status code.
84 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
85 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
86 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
87 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
88 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
89 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
90 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
91 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
92 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
93 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
94 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
95 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
98 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
99 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
100 win32 socket errors better.
101 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
102 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
103 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
104 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
106 - Make unit tests work on win32.
108 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
109 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
110 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
111 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
112 right after sending the begin cell.
113 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
114 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
115 exit nodes too. Oops.
116 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
117 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
118 the user would get no response.
119 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
120 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
121 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
123 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
124 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
125 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
126 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
127 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
129 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
130 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
131 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
132 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
133 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
134 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
135 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
136 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
137 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
138 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
139 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
141 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
142 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
143 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
144 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
145 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
146 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
147 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
148 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
149 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
150 so we don't see those messages days later.
151 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
152 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
154 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
155 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
156 they ran out of file descriptors.
157 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
158 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
159 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
160 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
162 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
163 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
164 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
165 the ones we find in directories.)
166 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
167 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
168 if you don't want it open.
169 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
170 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
171 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
172 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
173 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
174 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
176 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
177 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
179 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
181 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
182 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
184 o Features (circuits and streams):
185 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
186 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
187 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
188 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
189 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
190 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
191 the user knows which one it's talking about.
192 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
193 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
194 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
195 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
196 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
198 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
200 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
201 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
202 to fill the last cell completely.
203 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
204 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
206 o Features (bandwidth):
207 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
208 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
209 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
210 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
211 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
212 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
213 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
214 your billing cycle starts on.
215 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
216 hibernation properties by
217 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
218 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
219 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
220 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
221 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
223 o Features (directories):
224 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
225 nickname to its identity key.
226 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
227 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
228 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
229 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
230 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
232 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
233 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
235 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
236 will be able to get a directory.
238 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
239 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
240 be routed through this host.
241 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
242 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
243 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
244 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
245 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
246 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
248 o Features (packages and install):
249 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
250 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
251 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
252 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
253 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
254 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
255 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
256 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
257 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
258 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
261 o Features (ui controller):
262 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
263 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
264 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
265 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
266 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
267 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
268 with the control port.
269 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
270 use in authenticating to the control interface.
271 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
272 configuration to torrc.
273 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
274 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
275 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
277 o Features (config and command-line):
278 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
279 not on the command line.
280 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
282 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
283 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
284 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
285 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
286 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
287 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
288 - New log format in config:
289 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
290 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
291 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
292 from their dirserver.
293 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
295 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
296 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
297 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
298 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
299 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
300 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
301 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
302 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
303 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
304 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
305 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
306 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
307 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
308 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
309 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
310 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
311 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
312 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
313 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
314 than once per minute.
317 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
319 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
320 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
321 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
322 log more informatively.
323 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
324 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
325 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
326 from each other, to hinder linkability.
327 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
328 them act more like real nodes.
329 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
330 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
331 1024) file descriptors.
332 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
335 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
337 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
338 clients/servers with an open dirport.
339 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
340 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
341 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
342 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
343 intermittent connections.
344 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
345 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
347 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
348 in reporting stats locally.
349 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
350 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
351 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
354 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
356 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
357 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
358 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
359 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
360 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
361 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
362 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
363 list to decide who's running.
364 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
365 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
366 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
367 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
368 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
369 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
370 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
371 for pointing out this bug.)
372 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
374 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
375 don't put it into the client dns cache.
376 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
377 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
378 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
381 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
382 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
383 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
384 hadn't heard of before.
387 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
388 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
389 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
390 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
391 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
392 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
393 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
394 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
395 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
396 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
397 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
398 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
399 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
400 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
402 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
403 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
404 directory they've pulled down.
405 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
406 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
407 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
408 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
409 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
410 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
411 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
413 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
415 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
416 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
417 clients don't use this yet.)
418 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
419 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
420 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
421 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
422 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
423 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
424 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
425 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
426 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
427 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
428 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
429 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
430 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
431 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
432 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
433 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
434 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
435 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
436 - File and name management:
437 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
438 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
440 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
441 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
442 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
443 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
444 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
445 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
446 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
448 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
449 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
450 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
452 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
453 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
454 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
455 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
456 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
457 - New docs in the tarball:
459 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
460 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
461 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
462 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
463 know you might want to get it verified.
464 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
465 kazaa, gnutella ports.
466 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
467 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
468 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
469 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
470 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
471 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
472 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
474 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
476 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
477 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
479 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
480 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
481 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
484 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
485 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
486 ask them to resolve the host "".
489 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
490 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
491 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
494 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
495 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
496 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
499 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
500 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
501 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
502 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
504 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
505 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
506 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
508 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
509 hidden service per 15-minute period.
510 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
511 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
512 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
513 o Fixes for security bugs:
514 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
515 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
518 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
519 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
520 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
521 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
522 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
523 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
524 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
525 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
526 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
527 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
529 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
530 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
531 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
532 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
533 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
534 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
536 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
539 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
540 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
541 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
542 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
543 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
544 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
545 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
546 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
547 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
548 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
549 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
550 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
551 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
552 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
555 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
556 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
557 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
558 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
561 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
562 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
563 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
564 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
565 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
566 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
567 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
571 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
573 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
574 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
575 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
576 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
577 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
578 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
579 if you decrypted them correctly.
580 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
581 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
582 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
583 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
584 in-memory directories too.
585 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
586 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
587 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
588 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
590 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
591 - Better debugging for tls errors
592 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
593 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
595 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
596 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
597 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
598 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
599 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
600 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
601 it tells you about the first error.
602 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
603 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
604 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
605 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
606 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
607 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
608 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
609 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
610 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
611 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
613 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
614 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
617 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
618 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
620 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
621 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
622 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
623 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
624 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
625 expect it to have a nickname.
626 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
627 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
628 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
629 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
630 the dns farm to do it.
631 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
632 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
634 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
635 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
636 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
637 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
638 but that aren't warnings
641 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
642 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
646 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
647 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
648 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
649 - include missing header fcntl.h
650 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
651 - deal with hardware word alignment
652 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
653 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
654 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
655 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
656 by kill -USR1 currently.
657 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
658 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
659 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
662 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
663 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
664 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
667 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
669 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
670 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
671 - And fix a few endian issues.
674 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
676 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
677 try that circuit again: try a new one.
678 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
679 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
680 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
681 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
682 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
683 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
685 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
686 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
687 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
689 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
691 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
692 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
693 side isn't reading right then.
694 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
696 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
697 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
698 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
701 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
703 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
704 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
707 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
711 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
713 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
714 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
715 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
716 connection is finished.
717 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
718 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
719 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
720 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
721 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
722 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
723 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
724 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
725 rather than warn and continue.
726 - Make --version work
727 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
730 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
732 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
734 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
735 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
737 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
738 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
739 so you can collect coredumps there.
741 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
742 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
743 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
744 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
745 dns cache actually gets populated.
746 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
747 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
748 end cell down it first.
749 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
750 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
753 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
755 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
756 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
758 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
759 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
760 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
761 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
762 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
763 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
765 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
767 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
768 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
769 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
770 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
771 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
772 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
774 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
775 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
778 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
780 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
781 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
782 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
783 tor. It even has a man page.
784 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
785 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
786 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
787 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
789 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
791 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
794 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
796 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
798 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
799 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
800 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
801 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
802 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
803 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
804 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
805 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
806 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
807 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
808 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
810 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
811 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
814 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
816 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
817 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
820 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
822 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
823 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
824 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
825 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
826 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
827 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
828 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
829 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
830 logfile so you know it's working.
831 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
832 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
835 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
837 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
838 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
839 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
842 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
844 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
845 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
846 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
849 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
850 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
851 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
853 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
854 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
856 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
857 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
858 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
860 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
861 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
865 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
867 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
868 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
869 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
872 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
873 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
874 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
875 - Add port ranges to exit policies
876 - Add a conservative default exit policy
877 - Warn if you're running tor as root
878 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
879 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
880 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
881 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
883 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
886 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
887 o Robustness and bugfixes:
888 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
889 really screw things up.
890 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
892 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
893 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
895 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
896 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
897 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
898 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
899 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
900 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
903 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
906 - Change default loglevel to warn.
907 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
908 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
910 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
913 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
914 o Robustness and bugfixes:
915 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
916 - to get ownership/permissions right
917 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
918 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
919 pull down a directory again
920 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
921 causing server crashes
922 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
923 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
924 - exit if bind() fails
925 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
926 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
927 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
928 - fix minor bias in PRNG
929 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
932 - Wrote the design document (woo)
934 o Circuit building and exit policies:
935 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
937 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
938 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
939 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
940 exists, rather than failing
941 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
942 which AP connections are standing by
943 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
944 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
945 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
947 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
948 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
951 - APPort is now called SocksPort
952 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
954 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
955 hardcoded (for dirservers)
956 - Reloads config on HUP
957 - Usage info on -h or --help
958 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
960 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
962 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
963 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
964 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
965 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
966 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
967 to take down the network when I approve a new router
968 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
971 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
972 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
974 o Autoconf improvements:
975 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
976 - Make install now works
977 - create var/lib/tor on make install
978 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
979 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
981 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
982 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
983 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
984 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup